In a world that feels like one endless breaking news alert, Idris Elba is asking us to do something we might’ve forgotten how to do: laugh. The 52-year-old British actor is trading in his brooding detective coat for a tailored Prime Minister’s suit in Heads of State, the new action-comedy dropping July 2 on Amazon […]

British actor Idris Elba has shared his plans to move to Africa within the next decade to help grow the continent’s film industry. In an interview with the BBC, the 52-year-old star of The Wire explained that he is working on building film studios in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and Accra, Ghana. Elba, who was born in […]